U2: hypocrites

I initially meant to put a little more explanation around yesterday's mention of Scissor Sisters, a little talking about how I haven't always been able to stand disco (and several other genres), and sometimes the contexts in which we experience a genre have a lot to do with appreciation of it.

I was going to off-handedly propose Surfing with the Alien, but I'm also trying to figure out what music I remember from my high school or college years that was actually from that time (I tended to listen to a lot of earlier music) that's still around.

Unfortunately, Satriani's student, Eddie, was much more popular. Most folks wouldn't recognize Ice 9 as either a song or something from a Vonnegut story...
So, to research U2 a little more... I browsed over to U2.com. At the bottom of the page is this little gem:

The site is designed for the widest possible access.
For best results, please use a recent browser, set your screen size to 1024x768
and install Flash Player, Windows Media and Quicktime

And a quick glance a the page source - they are using tables heavily and no ALT tags. Using the term "access" on a page based on tables is a contradiction in itself...

Hmm. I'm only a couple of years older than you, Dan, but Joshua Tree was well past U2's prime. If you'd
dissed "Boy" "October" or "War", I might be able to get worked up about this, but "Joshua Tree"? That's like
judging The Who on "Face Dances".